Fred Sweeney

Venture Partner

Fred is a Venture Partner with OMX Ventures. He has extensive experience in the healthcare industry with senior leadership roles in strategy and corporate development with both small and large organizations.

Fred Sweeney

Prior to OMX, Fred was Chief Business Officer of MeMed Diagnostics Ltd, an Israel/Boston-based disruptive commercial stage technology company and had responsibility for Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development. During his tenure, the company executed several high value partnerships, and raised an additional $90M of equity financing. Prior to joining MeMed, Fred held leadership positions at Versant Ventures, Northern Biologics, bioMérieux and T2 Biosystems. He also currently serves as an Independent Director on the Board of QVella Corporation and CTRL Therapeutics and holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Toronto, faculty of Medicine, where he teaches a graduate level course on entrepreneurship in life sciences.

Education: PhD in Molecular and Medical Genetics from the University of Toronto and Bachelors of Science from McGill University

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VedaBio is revolutionizing molecular biology with its breakthrough platform for near-instant molecular detection of multiplexed analytes, delivering best-in-class accuracy without the need for target amplification. The CRISPR Cascade™ platform is poised to emerge as a new gold standard tool to empower decision-making across multiple industries.

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